Cyber Crime
Fears of being
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Fears of being robbed, assaulted, raped, or otherwise victimized on the ômean streetsö of American cities are hardly giving way, but new fears of criminal victimization are emerging as more and more Americans long on to the Internet for shopping, investment, financial transactions of all kinds (including bill payments and banking), and ordinary communication. Michael Miller (1999) commented that only a few short years ago, Americans who were thrilled with Internet chat rooms and Trivial Pursuit games were less than enthusiastic about using their credit cards to make online purchases; the industries that wanted to exploit the commercial advantages of the emerging medium joined together to create tough to break data encryption standards and protocols that would reduce this fear and the reality that it reflected. With the e-commerce hurdle a thing of the past, one might have expected that cyber crime would also vanish. This is not the case; Miller (1999) notes that online safety from privacy invasions and even worse financial and personal crimes is not assured. This report will analyze and discuss the various forms of cyber crime and their effect on Internet users, arguing that cyber crime is as difficult an elusive a phenomena to end as crime in the material world has proven to be. Hatcher, McDannel and Ostfeld (1999) provided a lengthy analysis of what constitutes cyber crime and how this particular type of criminal activity is, and is
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Studies indicate that solicitation of a childÆs personal information is dangerously common. Hertzel (2000) contends that children lack the cognitive ability to recognize and appreciate privacy concerns, are more trusting than adults, and may not understand the nature of the information being sought or its intended uses. Marketers have been found to use high-pressure sales tactics with younger Internet users which may not be legally ôcriminalö but which is certainly unethical and inappropriate. More significant, says Hertzel (2000) is the vulnerability of young children to assault by pornographers and pedophiles.
Business Week (Online scanbusters..., 2000) reported on fraud activities identified on the Internet. Thus far, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has brought 116 civil Internet fraud cases. In 1997, the FTC went after pornographers who tricked people into using their computers to phone Moldova for $2 per minute. The masterminds of this particular scam were forced to pay $2.14 million in damages to 27,000 people who had been scammed. The FTC has also been instrumental in closing a fraud case in August 1999 that ôpage-jackedö traffic from sites such as the Harvard Law Review to various pornography sites. Frau
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Approximate Word count = 1865
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)
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